up for review

[Deva]

www.cgmulleralgarve.com

Hi everybody,
please critique my site, did some changes, there seems to be something not quite right with the form in contacts, I read the tut's on forms and how to edit and link it, it was working at some time, than I added the reset button, and than it stopped sending emails. Then I noticed, even so I used my own email as a sender, yahoo put it in the spam folder?
and not quite sure which format to use for jpegs, would like to display as HQ as possible and quick, yet don't want to over do on page weight.

thanks in advance

[ElectricLutist]

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Only thing I noticed is on the Contact page, some of the text overlaps (I use Firefox, I think this has been a problem with other sites on that browser). Otherwise, nice site!

[Deva]

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Hi Electriclutist,

thank you for your review, I originally had 1 text box and links as an overlay, I separated the text, let me know if that fixed it for firefox, or maybe you have some recommendation, of how I can prevent it from happening for firefox users.

www.cgmulleralgarve.com

[nzbr]

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Site is clean and easy to read.

Here is the right way of writing your text in Portuguese to say that your page is still under construction:

Desculpe, mas não falo bem português.
Esta página ainda está em construção.


Cheers,

[Deva]

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Hi nzbr,
I appreciate the translation. This language is not easy
to learn for me. But I try.
thanks for your time

[nzbr]

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No, it's not easy!

Not a problem!!
Cheers,

[Muzza]

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Great site (I think) unfortunately your images take so long to download (even the small ones) that I've had to give up. Great homepage though.

[Collectors-info]

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Ditto with Muzza. http://cgmulleralgarve.com/projectstudy.html is at 1600kb & could easily be 200kb if you use soothing else to show your images.
Remember these images will be in your cache and will appear to load fast as they don't have to down load again..

[Deva]

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Hi Muzza and Chris,
thanks a lot for checking my site.
I agree with the size issue, but here is my problem. I really would like some good quality and size at the same time I would like reduced loading time of course. Did some looking around and I found Chris's comparison test:

quote:

BV LIGHT BOX.

http://www.collectors-info.com/testing/lbtest.html

BV GALLERY

http://www.collectors-info.com/testing/galtest.html

This one is a photo album that a few on the forum use.
http://www.collectors-info.com/testi...nightswim.html




The last one is from this company (FREE)

http://www.ornj.net/webalbum/

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1. I don't know why, but if I look at your light box it loads slower, yes, but it displays a bigger picture in new window, but it doesn't stay in a box to go to the next?

2. The gallery loads fast and the pop-up window displays the same thumbnail size as the folder, in fact the picture in the gallery is larger than the one in the pop-up, so it does not do anything for the individual picture.
http://www.collectors-info.com/testing/tn_012.png is 22k in the gallery
http://www.collectors-info.com/testing/012.jpg is 4.7k in the pop-up with the same pix size

3. I like, but I am not sure if it would be suitable for technical stuff?

I want to improve, so, what do you guys think, which is the best tool to use to display as large as possible?

I guess I could put all 3 on my site and see.

For instance I tried to optimize my architectural drawings, orig hairline in corel, now optimizing it makes it really fuzzy, so I had to leave what is there.

All inputs welcome, thanks

[Muzza]

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I use tons of photos on my site displaying fish caught on any particular day.
My camera takes photos from about 3-5 MP but these are way too big for the web, so I use any tool at my disposal to reduce the images (while keeping them in proportion) to 640 wide. I believe that they still have a very acceptable clarity while allowing a reasonable download time.

One thing about Lightbox though is that you must wait until all the photos have loaded before you click on an image to start the lightbox.

Check it out here if you wish:

https://www.ArlineFishingCharter.co.nz/fishing-reports-for-october-2008.html

https://www.ArlineFishingCharter.co.nz/fishing-reports-for-september-2008.html

[Collectors-info]

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Hi, the problem with the light box is that it reduces the main larger images in size & not kb's, this is partly why the thumbnail always look so distorted & also slows the pages down on loading. Was having a mess around with this one (link) & got the total page down to 105kb from 1600kb (including images), but had to compromise with using iframes or pop ups. Was using this FREE software. But i had to change 2 small parts on a css file that would only take 2 seconds.
Click on an image on the page or the blue image link as an alternitive.

[Muzza]

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The thumbnails do not distort unless you have made the box that they are fitting in too small. In otherwords, if you are using the lightbox and you find that the thumbnails are distorted, make the box larger and "hey presto" everything looks normal.

The downside is that the page can take a while to load but you need to work out a compromise between image quality and time taken to download.

If the time starts to takes too long, consider breaking the page into two pages or downsizing the quality of the images.

I think it all depends on what you are trying to achieve as to what decision you finally make.

[Collectors-info]

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Hi Muzza,

The thumbnails do not distort unless you have made the box that they are fitting in too small.

Not to sure what you mean by no distortion? Here is a very good example of a page on your site that has very distorted thumbnails & is very much over weight in kb’s by about 1.2meg because of using the light box. (Not sure on the limit? But its not that high, when many SE’s wont even index your pages when over a certain size in kb’s) Worth thinking about.

The downside is that the page can take a while to load but you need to work out a compromise between image quality and time taken to download.

There is no reason to have any downside on quality on any web page of the size we are talking about.
As described in the post above which has brought the page down from 1600kb to just over 100kb with no loss of quality.
A page with 50 images would still be under 300kb using the correct method & free software.
The light box is a light box, for 1 or 2 images & not a gallery for lots of images.
For this facility it is recommended that a proper image galley be use like the BV gallery, jalbum or a third party software, as this has the facility to reduce the thumbnails to a more reasonable size for multiple images on one web page & help with page loading many times faster for all visitors, especially those that may not have the facility of broadband. (Still at around 50% of the planet)

Cheers.

[asamboy]

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well done Deva..your website is easy to read, simple and clean. You success in your first step, now you need to improve your design skill to make your website more attractive. Thanks

https://www.bluelemonstudio.com

[Deva]

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thanks asamboy, Muzza and Chris,
no particular order here, just thank you for your inputs.

Hey! Guys! no fighting in my thread, lol, just kidding.
Muzza, there are really distorted imgs on your site, have to agree.
Thanks for the link, Chris. Looks really cool.

Chris,
What I did: I ran all my jpegs through photoshop, optimized for web, and created 2 sets of galleries with webalbum generator, which, what I hope achieved, what you suggested. And I have my big jpegs, are they too big?

http://cgmulleralgarve.com/projectstudy.html

http://cgmulleralgarve.com/nearbypictures.html

just tested, some functionality here.

1. on the English part of my site, I seem to have gone down significantly, I think. Please correct me.
2. issue I'm not quite clear. I have 1 site with 2 languages. Now I'm questioning, if it is the best way to make 2 complete duplicate sets?
3. does my file volume in cpanel have an effect on somebody looking at my website?
the more I'm here, the more I feel like I know nothing, lol, but I learn a lot.

and again, thank you for helping,